THE MAGIC OF SUBBUTEO
SIMON SHELDON REFLECTS ON THE DAYS WHEN SUBBUTEO RULED THE ROOST…

I’M not sure many of you would have received Subbuteo for a Christmas present this year, but you may well have done on Christmases past.
It is one of those games that guys of a certain age remember fondly, whether it was the hassle of laying the pitch out on the carpet and trying to keep it flat, (That’s an unlucky bobble just as you are about to shoot!) losing a ball under the sofa or, the worst crime of all, stepping on and breaking one of the precious players.
But that was all pa...